What’s the one thing you couldn’t live without? Some would say food, others might be as pathetic to say their girlfriend / boyfriend, some might even say toast, but for me it’s my laptop (or as my friends like to call it my Mactop).

Why’s this relevant you might be thinking? Well it’s trying times my friends. My Mactop has had to go in for repair. Now normally if a computer went wrong I’d fix it myself, but the fact of the matter is that if I did I’d invalidate my warrenty and my Applecare insurance meaning if it got totally written off I’d be screwed.

So I took it to a service provider, the only one in the North East of England – 20 miles away. Luckily my Applecare means that I don’t pay a penny, but I’m not geting it back till Monday – I practically wanted to cry when he said I’d have to part from my laptop for that long.

But it got me thinking and gave me a bit of a challenge: I have to now use my iPod as my primary computing device until Monday, which surprise surprise, I’m using to write this blog post. Unfortunately though I can’t position content like I usually do an I can’t format text or put a “more” button in.

But what I really wan to know is if I can manage websites, adwords campaigns, book writing and other stuff from this pocket computer. If I can I may let Apple use me as an example

I think it’s going to be interesting trying to do routine computer activities on my iPod – time to take a dig around to app store – I’ll post the results up tomorrow .

Till then!!
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